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NEWSLETTER Australasian Society for Immunology Incorporated PP 341403100035 ISSN 1442-8725 March 2008 2008 Annual Scientifi c Meeting Bernadette Saunders This year the shores of beautiful Manly Lisa Sedger and Charles Mackay for their Zealand, it did mean that every year the local Beach played host to our 37th Annual efforts in helping out on a host of issues, big organising committee had to relearn all that Scientifi c Meeting and what a great fi ve and small. Thanks also to Helen McGuire the previous committee had just discovered. days it was. We had 537 delegates from who organised the student social function at Building a collective memory has been 16 countries attending this year’s meeting Cerutis, which provided a great opportunity greatly aided by the appointment of Mike which was spearheaded by a host of fantastic for the students to get together and chat with Pickford and the ASN Events Management international and national speakers. the invited speakers. I would also like to team, who really oversaw all the practical extend my thanks to all those who helped aspects of the conference – everything Organising a conference requires dealing out in any of the multitude of events that from setting up and running the website with a myriad of practical issues, but our are required to bring together a conference to providing Velcro to put up posters, they conferences are only the resounding success of this size. From scoring abstracts, chairing handled it all. I am indebted to Mike and that they have become because of the great sessions to judging poster prizes, it is the his team, in particular Katrina, Danielle and science that is presented at these meetings. combined efforts of so many members of the Jennah, who did such a great job and took so Deciding on speakers to invite, and the Society that really brings our annual meeting much of the hard work out of the conference onerous task of selecting talks from abstracts together. Thank you. Also a big thanks to organisation for me. was brilliantly co-ordinated by Stuart Tangye. our sponsors BD, CSL, Beckman Coulter I would like to extend my special thanks to and Ozgene whose financial assistance The meeting began with three excellent Stu, who put together a fantastic and varied really is vital to keep down the costs of our workshops on the Sunday. The Postgraduate, program. Congratulations to Stu and Gill on conference. Tumour Immunology and Mucosal the arrival of Damien Louis who was kind Immunology workshops attracted over enough to delay his arrival until two days Special thanks must also go to Mike Pickford 150 delegates. Of course these days did after the conference fi nished – talk about and his team at ASN events. Several years not run without the occasional hiccup. The planning! ago the ASI council realised that convening scheduled 9am speaker for the postgraduate an ASI conference had become a little like I would also like to express my thanks to reinventing the wheel. While moving the cont. p4 the rest of the organising committee: Miles conference from state to state is a great way to Davenport, Fabienne Mackay, Nick King, share the meeting around Australia and New Contents 2008 ASM Report 1 Editorial 3 Honorary Secretary’s News 3 LtoR: Vice President's Column 5 President Elect 2008 Day of Immunology 8 Miles Davenport, Councillors’ News 9 former President Phil Hodgkin, Minutes of 2007 AGM 10 NSW Councillor Upcoming Lectures & Conferences 13 & ASM organiser Travel Award Conference Reports 14 Bernadette Saunders, current Gottschalk Medal 17 President Alan Student Page 19 Baxter Visiting Speaker Program 20 2008 Newsletter Article Winner 20 ASI Inc. Newsletter March 2008 ASI Inc. COUNCIL Non-Voting Councillors: Newsletter Editor President Vice President A/Prof Margaret Baird Professor Alan Baxter Dr Miles Davenport Ph: 64 3 479 7712; Fax: 64 3 479 8540 CGC, James Cook University Centre for Vascular Research Email: [email protected] Townsville Qld 4811 University of New South Wales Ph: 61 7 4781 6265 Fax: 61 7 4781 6078 Kensington NSW 2052 Journal Editor Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 2 9385 2762 Fax: 61 2 9385 1389 Professor Chris Parish Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 2 6125 2604 Fax: 61 2 6125 2595 Email: [email protected] Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer Dr Jose Villadangos Dr Chris Andoniou Visiting Speakers Co-ordinator Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Centre for Experimental Immunology A/Prof J. Alejandro Lopez 1G Royal Parade The Lions Eye Institute Queensland Institute of Medical Research Parkville Vic 3050 2 Verdun Street CBCRC/I, Post Offi ce Ph: 61 3 9345 2532 Fax: 61 3 9347 0852 Nedlands WA 6009 Royal Brisbane Hospital Qld 4029 Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 8 9381 0799 Fax: 61 8 9381 0700 Ph: 61 7 3845 3794 Fax: 61 7 3845 3510 Email: [email protected] Email: Email: [email protected] State Councillors Council Member of IUIS New South Wales Victoria & Tasmania Professor Chris Parish Dr Bernadette Saunders Dr Stephen Turner Ph: 61 2 6125 2604 Fax: 61 2 6125 2595 Ph: 61 2 9565 6114 Fax: 61 2 9565 6101 Ph: 61 3 8344 8090 Fax: 61 3 9347 1540 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Honorary Archivist & Webmaster: Queensland South Australia & Northern Territory Dr Judith Greer Dr Christopher Schmidt Dr Claudine Bonder Ph: 61 7 3365 5133 Fax: 61 7 3365 5462 Ph: 61 7 3362 0313 Fax: 61 7 3845 3510 Ph: 61 8 8222 3504 Fax: 61 8 8232 4092 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Administrative Correspondence Western Australia Australian Capital Territory Ms Judi Anderson Dr Delia Nelson Dr Gerard Hoyne ASI Inc. Secretariat Ph: 61 8 9346 3510 Fax: 61 8 9346 2816 Ph: 61 2 6125 2935 Fax: 61 2 6125 0413 PO Box 7108 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Upper Ferntree Gully Vic 3156 Ph: 61 3 9756 0128 Fax: 61 3 9753 6372 New Zealand Email: [email protected] Dr Joanna Kirman Ph: 64 4 499 6914 Fax: 64 4 499 6915 Email: [email protected] FIMSA Councillor Contact for Tasmania Professor Nicholas King Dr Greg Woods Ph: 61 2 9351 4553 Fax: 61 2 9351 3429 Tel: 61 3 6226 4830 Fax: 61 3 6226 4833 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website The ASI web site (www.immunology.org.au) has been fully remodelled and updated. New services include: ¾ Downloadable forms for ASI awards, ¾ Positions vacant pages, ¾ Jobs wanted pages, ¾ Upcoming conferences listings, as well as a plethora of links to sites of immunological interest at home and abroad. If you‛d like your lab home pages linked to the site, would like to advertise a job or conference, or have a favourite immunology-related site that doesn‛t currently appear on the ASI site, please email Judy Greer at [email protected] Email bulletin board To subscribe to the ASI bulletin board, send an email to [email protected] with the message: subscribe anz-imm. 2 ASI Inc. Newsletter March 2008 EDITORIAL HONORARY This is my last editorial after 3½ years as It was with some trepidation that I accepted newsletter editor. This issue is a joint effort the invitation to become the next editor of SECRETARY'S with Margaret Baird from Otago, who will our ASI Newsletter. Indeed, if it was not for take over the editing from the June issue. electronic technology, the prospect of a New NEWS This year I have opted to hand over the edit- Zealand resident fi lling this role would have ing, as I am moving on to a different role in seemed very risky indeed. But trans Tasman Membership renewal ASI as Vice President for 2008. It has been co-operation has prevailed yet again and The activities of ASI are supported a great experience working with the ASI with Miles’ excellent guidance through the by the annual contributions of its team, and has provided a good opportunity publication of this fi rst issue for 2008, I’m members. Please renew your membership to hear about the interests and achievements sure we can make the transition. and encourage new arrivals in your of our members. departments to join. All ASI members Australasia generates a wealth of exciting benefi t from reduced registration rates I am very grateful to Judi at the ASI secre- immunological news. Please do ensure that to the Annual Scientifi c Meeting and tariat for all her support over the last few this reaches us so we can spread the word. We other events organised by the ASI, a years. Without Judi’s help in assembling welcome debate. If you have a controversial free subscription to Immunology and and printing the newsletter, this would be point of view on an immunological topic, Cell Biology, Nature Immunology and a much more arduous task. I also want to write a letter to the editor. If you recall some Nature Reviews in Immunology, and the thank all those who have provided stories interesting, may be even hilarious, historical quarterly Newsletter. Eligibility to apply and photos for the newsletter (sometimes at anecdotes, write them down and send them to the substantial bursaries and travel short notice), so we managed never to have to us. The ASI Newsletter has always awards offered by ASI requires payment a blank page (quite an achievement when been a lively, of the annual fees by April 1st.